{"id":70380,"date":"2016-06-28T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=70380"},"modified":"2016-06-27T18:53:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T22:53:03","slug":"70380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=70380","title":{"rendered":"News from Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman\"<\/a>Schneiderman Led Coalition Of 14 States And District Of Columbia In Filing Amicus Brief Fighting Against Texas Restrictions<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued the following statement in response to today\u2019s ruling by the United States Supreme Court in Whole Woman\u2019s Health v. Hellerstedt<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s Supreme Court decision striking down Texas\u2019s unconstitutional and disingenuous abortion restrictions is a landmark victory for women\u2019s health and definitively rejects the state of Texas\u2019s spurious claims that their draconian restrictions protected women\u2019s health. This ruling, the most significant abortion decision in a generation, puts states on notice that they cannot adopt restrictions that unduly burden or deny a woman\u2019s constitutional right to an abortion.\u00a0 In a concurring opinion, Justice Ginsburg movingly spotlights the women whose desperation in the face of such abortion restrictions would drive them to unlicensed rogue practitioners at great risk to their health and safety. Today marks a decisive step forward in the fight for reproductive freedom, and a turning point away from a period of endless restrictions whose sole purpose is to block women from exercising their right to choose.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Background<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Attorney General Schneiderman led a coalition of 14 states and the District of Columbia in filing a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate both of these regulations. The amicus brief argued that when a state adopts a burdensome abortion regulation that purports to advance its interest in women\u2019s health, it should be required to demonstrate that the regulation will actually advance that interest. Review under this standard allows states to regulate in the interest of health and safety, while safeguarding a woman\u2019s right to access abortion services from unwarranted and burdensome infringements. The amicus brief additionally argued that each state is responsible for protecting the constitutional rights of persons within its borders, and cannot rely on the availability of services in a neighboring state.<\/span><\/p>\n

Attorney General Schneiderman\u2019s brief was joined by: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai\u2019i, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. It was prepared by New York Solicitor General Barbara D. Underwood, Deputy Solicitor General Andrea Oser and Senior Assistant Solicitor General Claude Platton.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Schneiderman Led Coalition Of 14 States And District Of Columbia In Filing Amicus Brief Fighting Against Texas Restrictions\u00a0 Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued the following statement in response to today\u2019s ruling by the United States Supreme Court in Whole Woman\u2019s Health v. Hellerstedt: \u201cToday\u2019s Supreme Court decision striking down Texas\u2019s unconstitutional and disingenuous abortion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23814,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s43meu-70380","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg?fit=260%2C221&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}